Spontaneous symmetry breaking in quantum many-body systems (A solid-state physicist’s view of Goldstone’s theorem and all that) |
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Authors: | G Morandi |
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Institution: | (1) Dipartimento di Fisica and GNSM, v. Campi 213/A, I-41100 Modena, Italy |
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Abstract: | The concept of spontaneous symmetry breaking arose first in the context of superconductivity, before it became important for
elementary particle physics. Starting with its original discovery, a comparison of the workings of the Goldstone mechanism
in relativistic quantum fixed theory on the one hand and in quantum statistical mechanics on the other is given. The roles
of locality and of long range forces are traced. For condensed matter physics, an approach using functional integral methods
and macroscopic order parameter fields, valid near critical points is outlined. A possibly more widely valid approach is also
presented, to complete this review of the Goldstone theories in quantum statistical mechanics.
Talk delivered at the International Symposium on Theoretical Physics, Bangalore, November 1984. |
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Keywords: | Spontaneous symmetry breaking quantum many-body system Goldstone mechanism effective Lagrangian |
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